Samuel Cahn (Combinations Capital Partners): Comprehensive immigration reform. The President will push it to shift attention away from taxes and government debt.

Holly Davidson (James Beck): That Dan becomes a Republican.

Velios Kodomichalos (Pepperdine University Investment Management): We have a balanced budget at federal level.

Robert Gray (DG Advisors): Apple’s fall from grace

Keith Buckley (ACS Signal Corp.): The number of people that utter the words, “Wait, MY taxes are going up? I thought it was just those rich people.”

Blake Winchell (Partner Ventures): Greece leaving the EU.

Geoff Rapaport (Cooley LLP): Passage of a bill establishing a national tax on GHG emissions with a portion of the revenue to fund domestic infrastructure spending.

David Simpson (LACERA): The rapid and seamless integration of Venezuela into the LatAm growth story post-Chavez.”

Daniel O’Donnell (Dechert): In the U.S. the PE and financial sectors will lag the industrial sector; the latter will perform better than expected producing ~3% growth in gdp; pe will pick up in the second half of the year as the glut of portfolio companies already held past the normal “sell by” date gets pared down into a rising domestic economy.

Geoff Devereux: Nouriel Roubini will witness a double rainbow. The video will go viral resulting in a guest host appearance on Sesame Street followed by taking a job with Disney as Chief Happiness Officer.

Michelle Clark: The return of PE to the tech sector, triggering a wave of buying (e.g., Dell and HTC get acquired) that prompts investment banks to jump in and drive divestitures (e.g., HP gets broken up).

Rusty Williams (Quick Catch Labs): The crumbling wall between advertising and editorial. In search of revenue, even venerable media companies will take money in exchange for “content creation” on behalf of clients.

Tim Yeaton (Black Duck Software): The necessity of working with competitors – collaborating and committing financial and development support to creating vendor-neutral platforms and giving up control to ensure timely innovation.

John Shaw (Maxill): The US actually defaults on its debt.

Leonid Markel (THL Partners): A productive political environment.

Karl Schmidtmann: John Boehner and Harry Reid are secretly married in Maryland in a service presided over by Clarence Thomas after a long weekend of long awaited, truly bipartisan support.

Douglas Weeden: Facebook Doubles to $60 on mobile ‘animal apirits’ and then crashes, ushering in #SiliconDustbowl2.0